Claude Certified Architect – Professional
The enterprise-scale capstone. If Foundations is 'you can architect one solution,' Professional is 'you can architect a portfolio and defend it in front of legal, security, and finance.' It's not a syllabus you can cram.
- Questions
- 63
- Duration
- 120 minutes
- Passing score
- 720 / 1000
- Validity
- 12 months
- Format
- Scenario + multiple response
- Recommended prereq
- Architect – Foundations
- Counts toward CPN tier
- Yes
You own a portfolio of Claude systems and answer to security, legal, and finance.
You present a Claude programme to a CIO and write the landing plan behind it.
You scale Claude Code across a 500-dev org with shared skills, MCPs, and rules.
Domain breakdown & weights
Foundations-level design, extended to a portfolio.
- Cross-system orchestration at scale
- Reference architectures and reuse
- Failure isolation across many agents
- Cost and latency budgeting for a portfolio
The distinctions it quietly leans on
Memorise which side of each split a question is testing — it eliminates wrong answers fast.
Free courses, in the right order.
Every course below is free on the Anthropic Academy. Work them top to bottom — tick each off to track your readiness.
Tap a course to mark it complete and watch your readiness climb.
Traps & high-value focus areas
Professional assumes you've architected at least one production Claude system end-to-end. It rewards experience, not memorisation.
Expect questions on how you'd present to a CIO, write a landing plan, or frame an incident post-mortem — not just technical design.
At least one lifecycle question will hinge on model version upgrades and pinning strategy. Have a concrete playbook in mind.
Data residency across Bedrock/Vertex, audit trails, and DPIA-style templates carry real weight — treat them as core, not trivia.
Ready to earn Architect Pro?
Follow the mapped prep track, drill the mock exam, and book when your readiness says go.